Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dean of the School. Tonight's programme will close with an address by an outstanding business man whose name will be announced at the time. The session in the Baker Library tomorrow morning will be occupied by two talks, "The Future of Our Railroads" by W. J. Cunningham, Hill Professor of Transportation, and "Are There Tangible Signs of Business Recovery", by W. L. Crum, professor of Economics, at 9.30 and 11 o'clock respectively
...ride. With Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 73. chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Aeronaut Wright climbed aboard the car which straddles the channel, grinned happily as it scooted along, throwing spray from its towing apparatus. (Next day Mr. Wright visited Kitty Hawk. N. C.; strolled about Kill Devil Hill where he and his late brother Wilbur made the first airplane flight, saw the memorial beacon being erected there...
...Over hill & dale in the vicinity of Friedrichshafen one day soon will sail the big business-like Graf Zeppelin, this time bent on play. Zig-zagging here & there, ducking behind clouds, she will lay a trail of colored marks for a game of hare-&-hounds. The hounds will be motorists...
Seated in the Hall of the Caesars on Rome's Capitoline Hill last week were some 50 pilots and navigators who have flown across oceans. They had been convened as the first International Congress of Transoceanic Fliers by the Italian Aero...
...balance their next season's budget (see above), in North Carolina a novel symphonic venture was having its start. North Carolinians wanted an orchestra of their own. No single city was affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone but in the university town of Chapel Hill a group of men headed by Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt had the idea of organizing a State Symphony,† one which would visit and be backed by several communities. They approached Composer Lamar Stringfield, a native Carolinian flautist teaching in the University music department. Among his teachers were Georges Barrere...